{"id":49811,"date":"2023-05-17T00:03:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T04:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=49811"},"modified":"2023-05-17T00:03:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T04:03:42","slug":"rockrider-e-expl700-electric-mtbs-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=49811","title":{"rendered":"Rockrider Adds Two New Performance-Oriented E-Bikes To Its 2023 Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

French sports and outdoor retailer Decathlon has taken the idea of your good old department store bicycle, and boosted it tech and features. The result is a range of bikes spread across multiple in-house brands which are surprisingly well-equipped, while retaining a rather affordable price tag. Being the avid mountain biker that I am, I was immediately drawn to the Rockrider brand, which, for 2023, has just released two new performance eMTBs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The first of which is the Rockrider<\/a> E-EXPL 700, a surprisingly affordable and well-equipped electric mountain bike. It retails for 2,499 Euros, or the equivalent of about $2,713 USD, and takes the form of a traditional hardtail mountain bike. Offered in sizes ranging from S to XL, the bike tips the scales at 24.5 kilograms, and is equipped with the Brose Drive T mid-drive motor. This motor dishes out 250 watts of juice, and is rated for 70 Newton-meters of torque. As for the battery, it’s rocking a down tube-mounted Rockrider battery with a 630-watt-hour capacity.<\/p>\n

To let you pedal alongside the assist, the Rockrider E-EXPL 700 gets a 10-speed Microshift drivetrain. It comes to a stop with Tektro M530 hydraulic disc brakes that clamp on 180-millimeter rotors. Up front, the bike is suspended by an X-Fusion RC32 suspension fork with 130 millimeters of travel. Last but not least, the bike rolls on 29-inch wheels with Rockrider Grip 500 tires.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The other model in Rockrider’s 2023 e-bike portfolio is the E-EXPL 700S. The bike delivers extra performance by way of a full-suspension frame. It also gets better front suspension in the form of a Rockshox 35 Silver R fork with 140 millimeters of travel. Meanwhile, the rear shock is a RockShox Deluxe Select Coil 210 x 55 damper.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Just like the E-EXPL 700, the 700S is equipped with a Brose T-Drive mid-drive motor, and a 630-watt-hour battery pack mounted in the down tube. Rockrider equips it with a slightly better drivetrain, though, in the form of a Shimano<\/a> Deore 10-speed setup. As you can probably guess, it’s a tad more expensive than the hardtail, retailing for 3,499 Euros, or approximately $3,800 USD, per current exchange rates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

French sports and outdoor retailer Decathlon has taken the idea of your good old department store bicycle, and boosted it tech and features. The result is a range of bikes spread across multiple in-house brands which are surprisingly well-equipped, while retaining a rather affordable price tag. Being the avid mountain biker that I am, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}